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Born in Bland Lake, San Augustine County, Texas, Fisher received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Texas School of Law in 1936. He was county attorney of San Augustine County from 1937 to 1939, and then district attorney of the First Judicial District of Texas from 1939 to 1946. He was in private practice in Jasper, Texas from 1946 to ...
Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...
William Penn Jones Jr. (October 14, 1914 – January 25, 1998) was an American journalist, the editor of the Midlothian Mirror and author. He was also one of the earliest John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists .
Samuel McClary Fite was born the son of Jacob and Matilda M. Fite on June 12, 1816 near Alexandria, Tennessee in Smith County. He attended the common and private schools and graduated from Clinton College in Tennessee. Fite studied law in Lebanon, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Carthage, Tennessee. He married Catherine ...
Nathan Lincoln Hecht (born August 15, 1949) is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from 2013 until his mandatory retirement December 31, 2024.
Frank P. Culver Jr. (January 1, 1953 to December 21, 1964) Jack Pope (January 4, 1965 to November 29, 1982) Ted Z. Robertson (December 2, 1982 to December 31, 1988) Lloyd Doggett (January 1, 1989 to December 31, 1994) Priscilla R. Owen (January 1, 1995 to June 6, 2005. Appointed as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...
Henry E. Doyle: [12] First African American male to serve as an appellate judge in Texas (1978) [29] Albert Armendariz, Sr. (1950): [30] [31] First Hispanic American male appointed as a Judge of the Texas Court of Appeals (1986) Louis Sturns: [32] First African American male appointed as a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (1990)
John Howland Wood Jr. (March 31, 1916 – May 29, 1979) was an American lawyer and judge from Texas.He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas before being assassinated by contract killer Charles Harrelson outside Wood's home in San Antonio, in 1979.